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Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1929, Page 2

DIPPING DEEPER. “There is nothing like a sip of somebody else’s philosophy. The biography of some great man or woman, or a collection of letters of memoirs—are so scandalous—gives just the right incentive to go and do likewise when the holidays are done. ‘Contact with great minds,’ is is familiarly called, and it has in truth as bracing an effect as a draught of fresh air. It also serves to counteract the false ideas that the novel may have set agoing. Here is something milled from hard experience, not the wild dreams of a romantic. Something rather hard to bite on may prove more welcome than you think on a wet day. Everyone bates the wasted feeling that a wet day in the country brings. Novels only make it the more irksome, and belles letters are apt to seem a little futuile, too. The wet day is ulten >le day for something practical. A bock, then, on political economy, bird lore, or ancient history—the subject matters less than its serious treatment — may prove a godsend.”—E. F. Osborn in the “ Morning Post.”